Concerns over bird flu outbreak coincide with a harsher than normal flu season, with estimates of between 33 million and 56 million influenza cases occurring in the U.S. between Oct. 1 and Feb. 15 ...

The outbreak of H1N5, which began back in 2022, has not only affected ducks, but has decimated flocks of chickens, turkeys and geese across the US. Avian flu killed 40 million laying hens in 2024 ...

There is always talk about the potential of an outbreak of bird flu in humans, but a new study in the journal Science says the risk of a pandemic is a "serious threat." The research team lead by ...

For the H1N5 flu to move from bird-to-human transmission to human-to-human transmission will only require a small mutation in the virus.

Avian flu has the chops to cause the next pandemic, but geneticists say there's a potential loop-hole: creating chickens that can’t get the flu at all.

A day after the CDC confirmed the first human case of H1N5 in Texas, the Texas Department of Agriculture confirmed a case at a West Texas poultry farm.

Avian flu has hardly left the news since 2004 when the first infections with H1N5 influenza virus were reported in south-east Asian birds. Since then, domestic and wild birds have been affected in ...

In fact, chicken is associated with bird flu or H1N5 virus, which was a threat back in 2005. Swine flu, on the other hand, is caused by influenza A virus of the subtype H1N1.

A duck farm on Long Island has hatched a new generation of chicks — beginning to replace the nearly 100,000 mallards they were forced to kill due to the spread of avian flu. Crescent Duck Farm ...